The Profound Idiots

The Profound Idiots

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The Profound Idiots episodes

  • THE INVISIBLE MAN: THE FARCE

    By some means scientific, a man makes himself invisible. And about a hundred years later, we poke fun at it.

    Our send-up of the H.G. Wells story and 1933 movie starring Claude Rains, Una O'Connor, Gloria Stuart and Henry Travers.
    Written and performed by Jack West.

    Music by Heinz Roemheld and Franz Waxman.

    41 min
  • MIND THE GAP

    A comedy drama that's not so profoundly idiotic. In fact, inspired by a true story: A bereaved widow takes on the London transport system.

    Starring our London cast:

    Geraldine Brennan, Andrea Richardson, Karim Kronfli and Dale Savage.

    Written and produced by Jack West.

    22 min
  • Whodunnit? a Jack Benny style comedy

    A new Jack Benny radio comedy written and performed by Jack West.

    Someone's broke into Jack Benny's house and smashed his precious Stradivarius to pieces! Join Jack and his wacky gang as he tries to root out the culprit.

    34 min
  • Jack Benny Goes Broadway AND Bust - Part Two

    Back in Hollywood fresh from being overlooked by Broadway, Jack hosts his own version of "Waiting For Godot" on his television program so the world can finally see what a great theatrical impresario he thinks he is. 

    With special guests stars Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant.

    Written and performed by Jack West.

    11 min
  • Jack Benny Goes Broadway AND Bust - Part One

    What? MORE Jack Bennyistic romps? Yikes!


    Jack Benny tries to land the lead role in what's being hailed as "the Greatest Play Sensation of the Century" so he can show the world what a great actor he thinks he is.

    With special guest stars Ronald Colman, Burns & Allen, Marlene Dietrich and Fred Allen.

    Written and performed by Jack West.

    Based on an idea by Brad Strickland.

    22 min
  • The Jack Benny "A Christmas Carol" Show

    Written and performed by Jack West.


    The great radio comedian's classic Christmas episode -- that never was. In this one-man performance, Jack West serves up a riotous rendition on what we can only imagine could have been Jack Benny's twist on the Dickens' novella. Adapting material and routines from the Jack Benny radio program with new material by Mr. West, the old miser (Ebenezer Benny, that is) spends Christmas Eve with Benny regular zanies Mary Livingstone, Don Wilson, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Dennis Day, Mel Blanc, Frank Nelson and Sheldon Leonard along with special guest stars Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Humphrey Bogart. 


    42 min
  • OPERATION CLUTTERBUCK

    Fantasy comedy. Inspired by a true event. The rest? Completely made up! I said it was a fantasy, remember?

    During World War II, Royal Navy Intelligence Officer Ian Fleming along with Prime Minister Winston Churchill hatch a plot to cast a spell on Hitler... with the help of British witches. 

    Starring Karen Corrado, Laura Mirsky and Jack West.

    Music Traditional. Additional Music by Kevin MacLeod.
    Written and directed by Jack West.
    A production from The Profound Idiots.

    1 hr 20 min
  • THE MAN WHO KNEWED TOO MUCH

    The Profound Idiots bring you their irreverent spoof of Alfred Hitchcock's suspense thriller, "The Man Who Knew Too Much" starring James Stewart and Doris Day. Which means, if you've been waiting to hear a parody of it, you've been waiting since 1956.

    An American couple and their little boy vacation in Morocco when a chance encounter with a mysterious Frenchman turns their lives upside down. The Frenchman is murdered in the marketplace and dies revealing that an international assassination is to take place in London and to inform the police to investigate "Ambrose Chappell." Their boy is abducted by a seemingly nice English couple who befriended them and they're warned not to go to the authorities with the dead man’s information - or the boy will be killed. This sets them on a course to London determined to hunt down the kidnappers by themselves.

    With John Bell, Diana Helen Kennedy, Bob Greenberg, Jack West, Christian Neuhaus, Andrea Richardson and Karen Corrado. And introducing Skippy as "Humphord The Camel."

    Written and directed by Jack West.

    Music from the score.

    Additional Music by Kevin MacLeod and Alexander Ustyuzhanin.

    “Streets of Cairo” by James Thornton. Performed by Paul Eakin’s Sadie Mae Carousel Band Organ.


    1 hr 22 min
  • THE ACTOR & THE FUNERAL

    Barry regrets putting his acting career ahead of everything. So he gives up the audition of a lifetime when his beloved Uncle Max dies.

    With Rick Beck, Karen Corrado, Greg Halvorsen, Lisa Rudin and Tony Walker.

    Written and directed by Jack West.

    Music by Kevin MacLeod.

    9 min

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